The rot set in again when Thatcher came to power in 79. Selling off council houses and reducing the stock of social housing with no thought to the future. Get rich quick for her mates and not a backward glance at the socially deprived.

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The poor get poor and the rich get rich...it was a Victorian attitude which stated that the poor were so because it was their fault entirely...was appalling then...even more so now.

I think many of us were born in the war; following this housing shortages, rationing, families did not have a great deal of money & for the majority life was frugal. I do think society was a better place. In the 1960,s, there was a blossoming or it was so for me & the people I went to school with. I think many of us thought we could change the world. A fairer & more equal society & then it all seemed to go slowly wrong. The welfare state became under threat & money seemed to trickle up, rather than down. I think it is disgraceful how vulnerable people are treated. Pleased this film has been made, I hope it reawakes compassion for others. X